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Show THE JOURNAL Page SATURDAY, 6 WOMAN'S WORLD Rich Fabrics to Highlight Fall Fashions By Ertta Haley RICH LOOKING clothes made of and opulent .fabrics are most the important fashion news of the moment. There are no radical Satin Ensemble w, V changes in silhouette, except for the fact that the tubular type which can be worn as easily by the large woman as the woman with reed slim lines, will be most popular. The new fabrics which will play such an important part in the fashion scene will have touch appeal as well as eye appeal. There will be woolens so thick and luxurious, theyll need no lining. There will be silks and velvets, too, as well as other luxury fabrics such as the taffetas, both plain and metallic, slipper satin, ribbed satin, hammered satin, pure silk and flat and canton silk. touches will apSubtle dressed-upear even on the daytime and sports clothes, while fabulous jewel embroideries will blaze on evening coats and dresses. Jet, that popular trimming of some time ago, which has been making a comeback, will capes are reversible, and its not at all unusual to find wool fleece cape made with velvet on the reverse side. Coats Add Lavish Note To Fashion Scene Thick but very soft coats will e popular this fall and winter in the fashion picture, according to designers forecasts. No woman need feel chill breezes, either, for theyll je warm, and lavishly so. Loop weave chinchilla cloth Is jeing used for both long and short e and plain coats. Reversible and plaid coatings appear destined for popularity. Cashmere and camels hair coats are a real surprise with their linings of white satin. Some of the newest coats are made in a Spanish cloak style, with Duttons and banding in black silk jraid. Drop shoulders are featured on many of the coats with stitching defining the deep underarm sleeve reatment. Trick sleeves are another feature seen on many coats, this taking the form of a contrasting cuff, made wide and dramatic, at about the elbow. High, upstanding collars, large but very neat looking, give many coats much of their interest. Buttons are used on many of the coats to point up collar interest. Spanish Influence Felt v In Both Colors, Trimmings As you may have guessed from the description of the cloak style coat, Spanish influence is being felt in fashions of the season. The two-ton- p Claret red satin is used in this dinner ensemble to add a luxurious note to the fashion scene. The dress is squared across the bodice and has wide shoulder straps. Tabs on the hips look like pockets, and are centered with rhinestone buttons. fashions promote sheath silhouettes are also being used In on some place of coats and jackets of the dresses, and these, too, have .heir velvet accents. Some of the Capes . are signs that the eyes are being really have arrived in full glory trained for it. It happens in subtle on with the new fashions, especially afternoon clothes. Color is the prime Inspiration of the top designers. Though black, brown, gray, winter navy and the basic red introduced last year are to be seen frequently, youll be noticing unusual colors and inventive There will be blues in at least a dozen shades ranging from the pale steel blue to the soft wedgewood blue. Orange shades are destined to be popular as well as green. Bright, flaming reds are on the scene, and so are pinks from flesh to intense hues. Women Will Appreciate Silhouette, Neckline Interest The tubular lines of the sheath silhouette are an important part of the current fashion picture. This will come as good news for women of all sizes, but especially so for those who wear larger sizes, as its an easy and flattering line to Wear. Many skills are included in the new silhouette as the working and d wrapping of the fabric seems to give a dress "muscle that will follow those of the individual. Strategic use of curved lines at neck and hip act as a balance to the vertical body lines. One of the most important features of the new silhouette continues to be width at the neck or at the top. Wide necklines, wide collars in many fascinating shapes, deep armholes and dolman sleeves are featured in dresses, suits and color-blendin- g. cross-graine- , coats. Collars with fur bandings or upstanding cuffs are fashion highlights. For the plunging or daring decolletage, . there are "fill - ins which include dickeys, 'lace or massed flowers, all lending their particular effects for the lavish ef- ways, though, by the use of low placed tabs on narrow box coats and the cascade panels that shoot out from the long molded torso line . of evening dresses, Hemlines for the current crop of clothes remain at midcalf, which is about 14 inches from the floor, on both daytime and evening dresses. The newest evening hemline is street length at the front though it swoops down at the back, and gives rise to what is called the peacock . NEW-FASHION- WALK . . . Roy ED Skirts are still slim as theyve been, but are more supple because of intricate skill used in wrapping, low placed flounces, tiers and back flares. for the evening open flower-lik- e above the knee or are like huge petals, narrow as a daisy or wide as a rose. Overskirts are growing in importance, and borders of fur, embroidery or pleats are featured everywhere. Suits Overshadowed By Dress Combinations Suits which frequently make news in the fashion picture arq by passed this season in favor of the dress with a coat or the dress with a jacket which many women will appreciate. This is, of course, in line with the dressed-ulook. Designers have concentrated on coats with exciting outlines, rich detail and silken linings. They have both originality and distinction, and, when chosen carefully, they will do a great deal for both face and figure. The dresses underneath the coats and jackets are slim and elegant When worn with their respective coats, the dress material is in ex treme contrast. Fabric weight determines the de sign and function of the costume. Wafer plaids, sheer wool crepes and chiffon jerseys are balanced by the other extreme. Youll be seeing velvet accents on many of the daytime dress and jacket combination. With a dress and jacket combination, for in stance, you may find that the dress has a velvet collar and belt to match the cuff, collar and revers of the Skirts ButlM a diver, discusses last minute detan. his line handlers and pumpmen before he took off from ni!i5 Comfort, Va., to walk 14 miles underwater 2 Roads. He made it, too, taking about 20 hours to comolS? marathon, setting a record for other Wl divers to. shoot at. deep-se- 38-year-- old sea-botto- a m Barbara Stanwyck Has Role in New Film 'The By INEZ GERHARD pausing in Barbara stanwyck, on her way to Rome to join Robert Taylor, admitted that she was none too happy about going by plane; aviation is one of the few Terrific Furies1 pool occupied the space forme used by the driveway to her rage. So she now uses double garage next hall door. Bobby Driscoll, the cabin boj Walt Disney's "Treasure Mac seems always to draw exciting enthusiasm shevdoes not share with him. One of the most interesting and best informed actresses in In "The Window he carried Hollywood, she would head the list pense through many scenes; of those Id like to be marooned "Song of the South he was I by a charging bull Edwin Montgomery, the helicopl pilot who rescued two men fraa Colorado River rapids in July, ceived so much publicity that Pif mount signed him to fly his c; in the Billy Wilder film, "Aceh Hole. I So Westerns many made at Gallup, line. fects so important now. The squared shoulder and set-isleeve is also in for a return visit. There will also be sleeves utterly absent as seen so extensively in warm weather fashions and the long, tight, dramatically: cuffed sleeves. Hemlines, Waistlines Bemain Unaltered You dont have to get used to a lower waistline, yet, although there jacket n HE TOOK A that this N. M., RKO has decided ; to switch! da scenery for its Technicolor (Hi "Best of the Bad Men", and Ea Ryan, Claire Trevor,) and wide, dramatic collars colors have a Spanish feeling, a? youll note when you see bold Cas tilian red and black, Goya yellow and black, as well as muted brown; and black, and the soft Velasques blues and greens. Spauish, too, are the trimming! which will decorate the fashions There will be velvet and jet combi nations, tassels, bead fringes black braid bindings, Andalusiar pleats and picador vests. have in Kanab, Utah. ii,v XWMMCQMi- Jack Johnstone, BARBARA STANWYCK with on a desert island; she is frank, director of ( the r "Somebody Knows", has nai as longest speaking role, hei mike Then when hes off soffldi cueing in actors, organist, and off" fects, echo chamber, intelligent, and has a sense of humor second to none. She has a terrific part in "The Furies, soon to be released, but talked not about himself. her own role but about the late Marlon Brando, whoknosi Walter Huston, whom she admired about tically nothing and and liked so much. The Furies owns 1,600 head was his last picture. Tekas, bought starring in , When it was announced that Bill earned by "The Men . mers Boyd, star of Mutuals "Hopalong through Brandos g Cassidy radio series, is to it all, put took ther with Bing Crosby in a film, everyflu one began speculating as to wheth- allowance, and invested Dough, er the Western star would sing with Mars cattle. in the ranch and Bing. Boyd settled that question in short order; his reply was a definite Dick Wesson, tta "No! Leave thaf to all the rest of . a fe tertainer, has them. And to Bings sons. role in WajT,er.L also do) Breakthrough . success Gloria Swanson is likely to be of his most known as the Iron Woman if she tions, 'James Bette D continues her current routine. Bogart and Recently she completed a three-montour of 31 cities in the United States and Canada, on behalf of her Paramount picture, Carole Landis Sunset Boulevard trip that it was foeveJ.it paulette which she began not long after a return to cei'V similar one to publicize "Samj J? , co-st- ar p One of the smartest things yoi can wear with "that little blacl wool dress is a black, white ant pink checked, heavy wool jacket The jacket Is short but full and ha! the spectacular interes shown in new clothes: upstandinj and outpointed. Wool dresses for daytime shoult be chosen in some of the new color: which are destined to be popular These include browns, dark graj tones, glowing red and purple. Watch - for lengti coats teamed with dresses as j smart daytime costume. Coats am dresses should have some harmoc izing color which ties the two to gether as an ensemble. Your best choice in a pettlcoa to be worn under a dress that break out in fullness at the knee line, i taffeta. This is a fabric that is cris' enough to do the most underneat' such dresses or even suits. collar three-quart- er c th co-st- son and Delilah. ar r.g Alan him vision brought Cha1 . . . Ruth Roman, while working in "Three Secrets, paused long enough to order a swimming pool. "Just put it anywhere, she told the contractor. He went to work the same day, and she got home that night to find that the hole for the . Paramount: discovered by . w medium a con5 Garry .JttarTl |